skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very much this. I would amplify it a bit and say talk to real humans in real life (not through a screen). Be a good neighbor, smile and greet people, help strangers. It sounds trite, but I think its the best path. A persons physical community is more important that twitter (or HN for that matter). Culture is made from the choices and shared knowledge of individuals. Being open to others is a prerequisite to influencing change. Accepting imperfections and poor decissions in others is a prerequisite to improving things. I don't see a magical switch that can be flipped to suddenly change a culture, nor do I see secret cabals controling us from the shadows, so no help from the illuminati or whatever.. It's the choices we make and the views we hold about our fellow citizens, and those are better in real-life than on-screen.
Do any other countries routinely fly nuclear weapons the way we (US, UK, Russia etc) used to? I mean Pakistan, India, China maybe?

Also, I thought that: at atomic bomb is pure fission, a thermonuclear bomb is Fusion driven by a fission bombs heat and pressure wave? The article seems to use the term "atomic" to refer to thermonuclear weapons.
A list of 332:
https://jamstack.org/generators/

(maybe a bit rabbit hole-ish but you can rank by popularity and filter by language and template)
Also reminds of "Better Than Life" from a cheesy, teen-sci-fi Shadowrun novel. The story starts out assuming Strange Days-style neural recording and playback is a commonplace consumer good. But, then quickly gets into highly edited experiences, generated experiences, and eventually into overwhelming, drug-like experiences.
Generally the farther east you go in the countries of the former Soviet block, the less trust there is. Poland has low trust, but it's a lot lower in Russia and if you smile to strangers you may get sullen glances or insults.

When I had a sprained ankle and was walking to the doctor with walking sticks, a car stopped by and I was asked if I want a ride. The question was in English. It's a moment like that when you realize no one else offered help.

It's worst when governments demonize journalists and media. One youtube talk I watched listed that as a sure sign democracy is under attack in a country.
C2 owner here, and an ADHD sufferer as well. I've always utterly hated working out throughout my life as sitting on a machine or out running without a goal other than "work out to maintain health" bores me out of my mind. I keep it bearable right now by catching up on TV (the little bit of time I have to actually watch anything these days), but gamification I think would get me even more into it.

I'd probably be interested in this product if it were able to be tied into my machine. That said, I don't think I'd actually be interested in the part that seems to be your impetus to make your own hardware platform (the variable resistance/strength training).

I primarily use my machine for cardio, and to keep weight off, and to that end I do indeed follow an interval training approach. However, I don't play with the resistance. I simply increase my strokes per minute for certain intervals throughout the workout. I think its a bit too much of a sacrifice to throw out the quality and results of a proven platform just to implement that one set of functionality (which I personally would probably not even use).

I'd rather see the capital raised put into making the software and user experience the best it possibly could be rather than being split between the software and an actual rowing machine.
> not to mention software updates.

Updates of any sort to the SW are generally very difficult to do. The certification process for any medical device is hard enough, let alone for implants, let alone for life-critical implants, let alone the recertification process for an already implanted life-critical device. This is why you'll see sonogram machines running XP still, completely disconnected from the larger internet [0].

The questions listed are mostly already considered and have many mitigation strategies per the regulatory agency in charge. There are many other questions that people like the FDA demand answers to.

One thing about the business side is that risk/reward ratio. In medical development, FDA authorization typically occurs at the 10-12 year mark for a product (though it varies widely). Meaning that your start-up only gets the go-ahead to make money after about a decade of investment. That said, once you get to sell, you have an effective monopoly on the market. Hence the costs of new drugs and devices being so insanely high; it's that risk/reward imbalance on the business side.

[0] Another reason why IoT medicine is very difficult, among many.
Makes sense. We do plan on revamping out website in the near future and will keep this in mind.
Thanks pretty much what i meant.
If you punish your child for dumping milk on a stranger and then laughing, I think the behavior will stick for the long term.
Wolfgang Doeblin
Given that Neural Networks seem to be approaching the limits of what they can do it may be time for a return to symbolics.

NN at the limit? Is that too controversial? The "black box" approach is having difficulty with the last 5% is it not? Hence we do not have self driving cars.
Right so when you have some childporn showing up, illegal material what are you going to do?
Soon as I saw this headline I was like "I bet this is about ASS subtitles". Sad, really. Would have figured the Scunthorpe problem was well enough known that it wouldn't exist in a project of this scale.
According to the specs, the requests are made without user agent headers, leaving only IP address. Targeting ads based on IP address isn't particularly valuable to ad networks if they can't correlate it with anything other than the sandboxed cohort data.
> Engine stalls are virtually unheard-of.

They do, and quite often

https://airfactsjournal.com/2018/10/the-bad-news-and-good-ne...
That would be pretty sweet :)
Here in Uruguay (South America) WhatsApp is the norm and you make all "digital errands" (even the grocery open markets and all kind of delivery services) with it. I have been annoying my friends and family for years to switch to Signal or even Telegram with little results and my obligation to remain fixed to it. Nevertheless, after this WhatsApp/Facebook ultimatum I was astonished to watch dozens and dozens of contacts migrating, and I knew it was my moment to delete WhatsApp before they get sweetened by the delay of the deadline until May, so they begin to use the other tools, too (I don't think the majority will delete WhatsApp, but it will be a great improvement if at least the personal conversations and contacts remain out of their claws). I really didn't expected to witness such exodus: people seem to be hypnotized by social media and Pavlov's bell -the dog is not to blame-, but maybe we could think that, although it takes a lot of time to appear, a critic mass is all that we need for a change. Businesses and government should be aware of that and don't take us for granted.
Reminds me of the American SSN.

”This number is super secret and you must guard it with your life and never share! Oh also write it down on every semi-official form, send by paper mail, and enter into all sorts of webapps”
Considering I own Neurosity's Notion: https://neurosity.co/, which is a consumer BCI based product, I'd say a couple years ago.
Sorry i guess @leephillips said it better than me.
Merck to stop developing its two Covid-19 vaccines
Interesting that you seem to have the complete opposite experience of me. By the way, on my Discovery tab, I can scroll down a bit and click on Pizza to get a list of places that deliver pizza.
Yes we can. Please remember Web Components have no backing, while React has a top tech company actively developing, maintaining, and embracing it.

For the last 5 years, I've heard about "Native Web Components", and for 5 years, the prevailing wisdom is to use react instead. :)
Law enforcement official demanding encryption backdoors due to Capitol riot
Learning new language-understanding tasks from just a few examples
My overly simplistic theory on why everything turns into a race-to-the-bottom is that cost is easily measurable and all the other things that Hart mentions, while important, are not easy to measure.
Give examples. I have never seen a case where there was a business reason to distinguish a null vs blank string. Dates? Yes. Numbers? Yes. Strings? Nope, never.

Let’s start with the most common false example: middle names. What are you going to do differently in your app if some one has an unknown vs a blank middle name? … Nothing. The displays will be the same. The search will still have to account for ignoring middle names because missing middle name might show up as “NMI” in an external system. There are no implications to having a missing middle name vs no middle name. You might need a flag for “date that the user verified that this is their full name” but that has nothing to do with null strings.
Let's see. $1 billion damages vs. earning $20,000 per day. Guiliani comes out ahead after 50,000 days. I kind of doubt he got that long...
Well written article!
First time I hear of ReScript and peeked some interest.. altho given Typescript rising dominance ReScript will need to be times better to challenge that.
Please don't take HN threads into ideological flamewar. We're looking for curious conversation. A comment like this just leads to hell. Threads are sensitive to initial conditions, so it's especially damaging to post like that when the page is blank.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Some fitness equipment do this already. I'd love to see it happen with our rower, but I feel the screen is a bit too hungry.
Silent trade: "Group A would leave trade goods in a prominent position and signal, by gong, fire, or drum for example, that they had left goods. Group B would then arrive at the spot, examine the goods and deposit their trade goods or money that they wanted to exchange and withdraw. Group A would then return and either accept the trade by taking the goods from Group B or withdraw again leaving Group B to add to or change out items to create an equal value. The trade ends when Group A accepts Group B's offer and removes the offered goods leaving Group B to remove the original goods."
Full disclosure, I don't work on processors but am in a tangentially related field.

However, I don't feel that you need to have an analytical solution to the Schrödinger equation. In fact even in chemistry we don't do analytical solutions instead using fancy basis sets which allow us to do approximations.

Regardless, I don't think even that is particularly necessary, as quantum at that level means you basically have some level of leakage where the electrons can just tunnel through the barrier created by the transistor when off. So if I had to guess most of it is just ways to rectify this leakage so it doesn't effect calculations, probably similar to a form of error correcting.

(This ignores that you may have to do some initial quantum calculations using Density Functional Theorem to get a guess at how much leakage based off the materials you are using, though if I had to guess most of that work was done a while ago.)
Rail or airplanes? The two companies have been distinct for many years now.

Rail projects are a political nightmare, as every buyer is a government (municipal, state, national) and wants their rail equipment to be manufactured in their jurisdiction. So they can make a big announcement that the X millions they just paid is actually creating good jobs. Then a few years later the job dries up for a designated site (project completed) so the local government keeps bailing it out else they'll get voted out for getting rid of all these jobs!

Plus, of course, every project is custom hardware. And is long enough that it will span at least two municipal, state or national administrations so expect a feature creep/change of requirements in the middle.
I believe there is a work in progress implementation of a proc-macro interface for lalrpop here [0]

0: https://github.com/dtolnay/lalrproc
So this is the power of machine learning, huh? Just as shit as the old keyword blacklists of old.
Just like the election integrity debate that was almost entirely erased from social media, Romney said “an audit won’t satisfy them, only telling them the truth will”, which is terrifying because he doesn’t know the truth either, because nobody looked.

When it comes to a democracy we shouldn’t be required to just trust the officials, we should be allowed to question them, but we shouldn’t have to trust them. What I mean is the system needs to work in such a way that trust isn’t required.

They are still stonewalling the audits in places like Arizona, last I heard the Senate is recalling the election board for ignoring their orders to provide access for inspections.
Reminds me of a tweet I saw early in lockdown about people having virtual team meetings around a camp fire Red Dead Redemption.
I'm so proud of my country, we just got the goal, time to double it.

And If you ask the politicians to improve security, they will probably say "put 2 more security guard outside the building".
A beginner from which perspective?

This book is ideal for someone with no knowledge of ML. It is a level 100 equivalent book.

Given its mandate of 100 pages, it sacrifices breadth for depth - it covers most of its topics in 1 page or fewer. It has lots of paragraphs that end with "There are many advanced techniques that go beyond the scope of this book."

The best thing about the book is it is fairly comprehensive and well-organized as an end-to-end overview. It has short, 1-2 paragraph chunks about the 80% of ML work that covers 99% of what ML is.

It of course doesn't go into detail but it also does not have many topics missing, which means if you make a mind map while you're reading you'll have a great starting point to branch out further once you're done.

When you're done with this book, you should be able to speak intelligibly about most aspects of machine learning development and design.

You should also be able to find strengths and weaknesses in your understanding based on what you came to the table with to pursue further.

I think this book coupled with some kind of lab practical or a series of Kaggle contests and notebooks to apply what you learn in this book would be an excellent "ML 101" course.

I teach out of this book for a 2 week bootcamp to new hires and converts to the data science practice at the consultancy I work at.
Well luckily this is Google. Which means there are no real human behind the suspension, most likely just an Automated response before some one steps in. ( Or not )

I would be furious if this was coming from Apple. And judging from the current Apple I would not be surprised if they will tell you to not use the "ASS" label in your support format.
That seems like an extremely good idea actually, since if you dogfood your own releasing service then you can't fix it anymore if you accidentally bring down the service.
Man, I remember stumbling on this project every few years. 5 or so years ago I remember being tempted to preorder one, but decided I'd just wait until it was ready.

Now it just kind of makes me sad. Sure, some people will be really happy with this, and I hope they enjoy them, but for most use cases there's just so many better products out nowadays IMO.

Because of the GPU it's not really suited to be positioned as an "open source friendly" design, and if that's not important, GPD has a lot of really good products now. Most aren't quite as small, granted, but I imagine a pinephone with a keyboard case would be a close match. The physical controls (especially for gaming) probably wouldn't be as good, though...
Contact the police so they can arrest the poster?

Also, maintain a public denylist of packages with an transparent process for overriding or correcting the list?
> We have captured the lightning in a rock and taught it to think.
Give a business example for a string specifically being modeled where blank is valid and distinct from null which isn’t better represented by a separate column for entry state.
You need to learn to wind down. You can't expect to use your brain intensely and then shut off. But you can start by lowering the light, relaxing, stop using electronic devices, etc. (though listening to something unexciting does induce sleep). I also induce sleep by forced repeated yawing. Every couple of forced yawns trigger a real one, and with that some sleepiness. Another exercise I do is to imagine I lift my arms/legs up and let them fall by my side, helps me to relax my nervous system. I've done some meditation in the past and it helped as well but I don't actively do it before bed but you can absolutely try. Another thing that may or may not work for you is white/pink/brown noise. I prefer quiet if I could get it, sometimes that is impossible, e.g. having a window facing car traffic so in that case white noise can reduce the intensity of sudden sounds. So there is no formula but a bunch of habits really do help.
General-purpose computing
If you still want to read something more practical, you can check some implementations and documentation of decentralized protocols

https://getaether.net/mim-docs/

https://docs.ipfs.io/concepts/
You can pack more within the same area for one. A multitude of other constraints come in but that’s a big reason.
Ask HN: Monorepo design best practices? (naming convention etc.)
I need to create a company's first repository.

It will immediately cover custom plugins to use with the existing site built with an off-the-shelf CMS and commercial plugins.

Eventually, it is likely the entire site will be replaced with a custom web application and mobile clients.

Rather than discuss the merits of a monorepo, I'm looking for direct implementation recommendations.

What is an appropriate folder naming appropriate for top-level and secondary level? i.e.

Presuming the company name is largely the product name:

Repo path for new custom plugins

[org_name]/[company_name_cms_name?]/[custom_plugins?]/ [custom_plugin_name?]/

New Custom web application:

[org_name]/[main website? web_application? company_name.com?]/[company_name_[framework_name]]?

Mobile client

[org_name]/[company_name_framework]?
> It's worth $1000 but is otherwise in fine condition.

You need to calculate if the cost of 4 tyres plus any future maintenance costs (and the time that is going to be lost in the future for maintenance) exceeds the cost of a new car minus the cars current value.

Opportunity costs and value brought by a new car is hard to calculate, yes, but the motto is: if you like the car to spend 1000 on it, just do it. E.g. My car is 15 years old, while I can afford a brand new one, I don't, because I love it :)
Cheers for showing your work. But again, in the video, whatever it's faults, you do see a car hit a barrier and not go crunch, yeah?

> why didn't they just do it in a controlled environment?

Well, there is more than one video. The one we're talking about is obviously a public demonstration and not a scientific test. (There was one video that seems to have been removed now that showed a very good and clear demo of the ramp/glass being done at some trade show or convention. that video or others might still be on YT somewhere.)

What about that ramp/glass demo? A glass shatters when the little car thingy hits it, and then another glass doesn't shatter when the flywheel device is active.

And really, I haven't dug into this particular tech too deeply, it could well be a hoax.

But my point still stands, there are lots of interesting and useful ideas that work and get ignored or neglected. Magnus effect rotors, the Tesla turbine, desalinizing batteries, "Aircrete", etc...

I could literally go on all day, just listing the less "woo-woo" stuff off of Rex Research.
ASS subtitles are particularly popular in anime fansubbing as it allows for advanced typesetting.

You can take it pretty far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9AgMlHJe7Y
It's a great film. It's getting tiresome for me towards the end, but for most part it's a movie that pulls me in based on visuals alone and that's rare.
I was worries when I listened to Bill Maher earlier and comments about the need for more surveillance was met with nods and agreement. For 20+ years, the US has had massive over surveillance. For the same time period law enforcement has ignored white, right wing, terrorism. No amount more power will make them arrest people they choose to ignore...
Numbers are totally different than strings. 0 is a distinct number in a way that blank is not a distinct string.
Just wanna make sure I got this right. "ASS", automatic instant suspension with 0 human review.

"King's Throne: Game of Lust.", with advertised gameplay content such as "I, [the King], shall interrogate this female prisoner privately in my bed chambers", is one of the top advertised games on google play.

Got it.
Can Google tell me who these people are so we can start hanging out? These dudes sound sick
Not super relevant or anything but I just can't help but share my favorite profanity filter story, so here you go.

I worked at a place that had a profanity filter in two parts.

The first part was in C, several pages of if (!strcmp(x, a)) return 0;

After all that, it then invokes popen() to ssh to another machine and run a shell script there, which contains several more pages of string comparisons, this time in shell.
Unpopular opinion: anything that outputs an AST is, by definition, not a parser but a recognizer with extra steps. The reason for this is that an abstract tree has not yet been parsed. The input is only parsed once the AST has been traversed, presumably by a much-maligned recursive descent method.
Right now, OpenBCI makes products that only handle the "read" side of the equation.

As far as "writing" back into the brain, the coolest thing I've seen was the "BrainNet" project from University of Washington which used transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)

https://www.washington.edu/news/2019/07/01/play-a-video-game...

The science and tech is advancing very fast, but I think it's not accurate enough to be in everyday use yet as a controller for devices. 90% accuracy sounds great in a paper, but imagine if your mouse clicks or keystrokes didn't register 1 out of 10 times.

What feels way more likely is that we'll see biometric data being collected by more consumer tech devices (cellphones, laptops, headphones) and used as one of many inputs to improve software applications and operating systems. Could EMG or EEG data be used to improve iOS autocorrect and reduce fat finger mistakes? That's a mundane application for crazy tech, but it's the kind of thing that I think will be a necessary intermediate step in us learning how to use these types of signals in everyday ways.
Thanks for the feedback and good points. The good thing is the hardware is done and we're focused exclusively on the content. We try to pump out 10-20 new workout options every 4-6 weeks.
You mean like what happens on the web, the system you're using presently?
> That’s fair, I’m just struggling to define what the prior American mythos actually was

The problem I think is that you are starting from the assumption that America had a uniting mythos that only recently fell apart, rather than America having had deep, vicious internal divides throughout its entire history that were sometimes temporary subordinated to even stronger shared opposition to external forces.
What does it mean if a Covid vaccine has '90% efficacy'?
Had any experiences with them? (Good or bad?)
Where I live you need to hold a trigger on the nozzle. You can't wander off and do something else.
While it’s true that various US and foreign agencies can (and already are) tap into communication networks, that is a very different scenario than what you see in China, i.e. the state essentially taking control of private companies whenever they want.